Reports of Percy Harvin positive apparently true

This isn’t exactly news, because we’ve been hearing it for weeks, but apparently the reports that Florida wide receiver Percy Harvin tested positive for marijuana at the NFL draft combine in February are true.

Alex Marvez of FoxSports.com reported Wednesday that two league sources have confirmed that Harvin and North Carolina receiver Brandon Tate were the only two positives when the league disseminated the information to teams earlier this week.

NFLDraftBible.com reported last month that Harvin was among several players to test positive, but that report blew up when almost everyone else they named threatened legal action. ProFootballTalk.com came back with another report earlier this month that it had learned the information on Harvin was correct.

Harvin’s stock had already been slipping, with NFL Network draft guru Mike Mayock speculating Monday that he could fall out of the first round of this weekend’s NFL Draft. While that seems unlikely, teams will no doubt be once again reconsidering whether they want to invest so much in a guy who can’t seem to put his off-field problems behind him.

After all, when you know you’re going to the combine, and you know you’re going to be tested, how can you take a chance of a positive with potentially millions of dollars at stake? That goes beyond bad judgment. That’s just dumb.